Vasily Starodubtsev

Vasily Alexandrovich Starodubtsev (25 December 1931-30 December 2011) was Governor of Tula Oblast from 1997 to 2005, succeeding Nikolai Sevryugin and preceding Vyacheslav Dudka. One of the hardline communist leaders of the failed August Coup of 1991, he later served as a CPRF and Agrarian Party of Russia politician.

Biography
Vasily Starodubtsev was born in Volovchik, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1931, and he served as a kolkhoz chairman in the Novomoskovsk district for many years. He went on to serve as Chairman of the Peasants' Union, and, in 1991, he took part in the August Coup as one of its leaders. He went on to serve in the Federation Council from 1993 to 1996, as Governor of Tula Oblast from 1997 to 2005, and as a member of the State Duma from 2007 to 2011, when he died five days after his 80th birthday.